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Former Ozzy / Badlands Guitarist Jake E Lee’s June UK Tour Dates Announced
Following Rave Reviews Of Awesome Debut ‘Red Dragon Cartel’ Album
“Jake E Lee is back after two decades away from the
music scene with a brand new band and frankly bril
liant album that fuses the past and present very well
indeed Featuring the elements that made his eras
with Ozzy and the legendary Badlands so special as
well healthy evidence that his style has progressed
the songs here are to be savoured as something
pretty damn special Opener ‘Deceiver’ is a brilliant
slice of classic hard rock and Jake’s signature guitar
style is all over it UK based vocalist DJ Smith is an
amazing find his voice being raw at points and like
Ozzy at others There’s hard rock blues metal a lit
tle alternative and more all held together by splen
did songwriting and Jake E Lee’s scorching guitar
work Welcome back Jake A lot of us have missed
you / ” Andrew Hawnt Powerplay Magazine –
February
Legendary former Ozzy Osbourne and Badlands gui
tarist Jake E Lee has lined up a June UK tour for his
new band Red Dragon Cartel in the wake of rave re
views of the group’s awesome self titled debut
album released at the end of January on Frontiers
Syron Vanes and Jupiter Falls have been confirmed
as with special guests on all the club dates except
Buckley where only Jupiter Falls will perform Don’t
miss the chance to catch Jake’s at The Slade Rooms
Wolverhampton on June th
Jake E Lee an early member of Sunset Strip main
stays Ratt and Rough Cutt was catapulted to promi
nence when he was recruited as Ozzy Osbourne’s full
time guitarist in He co wrote and performed on
Ozzy’s multi platinum ‘Bark At The Moon’ and
‘The Ultimate Sin’ albums and toured the
world’s arenas several times over before parting com
pany with Ozzy in
Jake then formed acclaimed blues based hard rock
band Badlands who signed to Atlantic Records and
released the band’s debut ‘Badlands’ album in
and the follow up ‘Voodoo Highway’ in But
after the death of Badlands vocalist Ray Gillen from
AIDS related complications in Jake dropped right
out of sight of the rock and metal community for
nearly years “I quit and indulged my other inter
est in old cars and later on got into computers – tak
ing them apart rebuilding and hot rodding them” he
told Classic Rock in the magazine’s February
issue
They chose the name Red Dragon Cartel as a nod to
Lee’s Japanese heritage and the “gang” mentality of a
unit who would die for each other These four musi
cians also cultivated a focused fresh and fiery hard
rock sound that embraced the lead guitarist’s classic
style while emitting a new kind of spark on their self
titled debut for Frontiers Records “It’s not like we
stopped listening to music for the past two decades ”
chuckles Mancuso “Those modern influences cer
tainly pop up At the same time there are some inim
itable elements to Jake’s playing; you know it’s him ”
RED DRAGON CARTEL
JUNE
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